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    I have been enjoying as always your zigzagging between the construction and the research / Hunting of the Clue (even though there seems to be no Bellman to tell you three times what is true) A couple of snippets that might be useful when you make the next butter boat 1) when you raided the kitchen for butter, you might also have used kitchen wrap (Gladwarp, as we call it). giving the plug a wrap in it will prevent sticking 2) The paper idea is good, and extremely fine pine veneer is available* as cone-shaped wraps sold as holders for party favors (sic). (about .008" thick) 3) all white glues are hot-melt. so if you carefully lay a fine line of glue on the overlap of the plank already fitted (I use masking tape to limit the width to about 1mm. Leave to dry, smooth next plank into place and apply heat (small temperature-controlled soldering iron?) starting at one end. You get instant adhesion *in Australia. I will recall and post the name of the chain of shops who sell them Edit - this is the product, but not the chain store where I got mine - the wood is said to be poplar https://www.houseofparty.com.au/shop/wooden-cones-50-pack/ I freely admit that the Henry Grace butter boat is tiny and the hot melt technique may prove challenging/difficult/impossible
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    Interesting and prescient picture! I see Ned Kelly in the crew of the ships Your research and relevant pictures are never dull
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    Thanks for that, Steven Feels about what I expected, but as you say, it wasn’t rocket surgery it wasn’ Matthew Parris, either. ( UK MP and hilarious broadcaster)
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    Welcome to the ranks of honest humans, DCook65 The planking essentially is the ship and is probably the most difficult single task in this or any build Its not the wrong time to be jumping in; do you have the same kit? If so the way to build confidence is to read the build logs of everyone else who has built this or similar kits and map out in your mind the next few steps Then do them
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    I can see the “cods head, herring tail” shape of the immersed body. I rather suspect that this saying was not published till a century or so later, but I expect that the lessons were being learned and acted upon earlier I find it interesting how blunt an entry can be without too much harm to the drag, but how sensitive the ship is to the aft run. And maritime growth!
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    And no! I stand on the shoulders of giants to better see over their shoulders and learn from them To tell a secret, when I am trimming a weird plane and I have no idea where the centre of gravity (CG) should be - I don’t fit the G/G for the first flight until I see how it behaves. (and I love C/G in German which is, I believe Schwerpunkt ) This is what I was flying and trimming on Wednesday- a lifting body tailless. Two sizes, this one weighs about 25 gm, just under an ounce And it’s little brother is 66% of the size and flies at 11gm
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    I didn’t see that one, Steven, but in the 80s? Paul Macready ( who had already won all the man-powered flight prizes) made a pterosaur. It had radio control, was a glider launched by a stonking bungey , and I remember most the rudders which were the two feet and also the casque on the head coupled into the rudder function Ah, got it http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/596/2/MacCready.pdf Paul Macready was a well known aero modeller before being an academic, and his team, pictured in the article includes Martyn Cowley ( I am close to throttling spellchick) another international competitor in model gliding. i love the name of the fossil pterosaur they were resurrecting: drum roll:- Quetzalcoatlus Northropi Named after John Northrop cos it’s tailless, So he AND the pilot of his YB-49 are immortalised. (We all know the pilots name, but most of us don’t know that we know) (On Discworld there is a god called Quetzalovercoatl. I thought you might like to know that)
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    They turned up a lot for feet! Yes, neutralising his feet would help. I suspect that mediaeval life would have a generally darkening effect on footwear.
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    For anyone interested Connie is an Australasian pelican ( pelicanus conspicillatus) and the ruff at the back of her head is a piece of cockatoo feather The model has Platz planform and is controlled only by differential motor thrust. Her big feet give a bit of stability in yaw
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    Thank you very much Eric, Nelson and EricWilliamMarshall for your kind and thoughtful messages, and to all the “likes” I hesitated before posting as I feared that I would be over-communicating. But it seemed right to let you all know what I am wrestling with at the moment. This corner of Australia is gradually opening up again after COVID ( still possible that more waves are on the way) and the indoor model flying organised by our Mens Shed is beginning to happen again. My wife strongly encouraged me to go whenever it did not interfere with owt medical. So I feel encouraged to build and fly again! Photo attached of Connie, my pelican whose beak is Velcro-attached for evident reasons and she flies sedately round a basketball court. This will not slow the progress of the ship; quite the contrary. Wanting to do any activity is good, and leads to more doing in other fields
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    Planking (and revised lines) looking very good Our ‘enery looking very good as well! It wasn’t really a challenge! The manifest will probably include several casks of Madeira. Did we know that Stephanie Flanders; the former BBC Economic Editor, was Michael Flanders daughter? He contracted polio in his 30s I believe
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    Hi, Eric and other shipbuilders The ship has progressed quite a lot, but the build log not at all My lovely Admiral, who bought me the ship as a Christmas present, died in my arms in November. i have not felt able to post since then, indeed my brain has turned to mush. Recall has become elusive, concentration brief and typing has become difficult as I am dyslexic and rely on a photographic memory for the images of words. To me all words are images and I just type letters till it looks like the image. Added to this is a huge workload of paperwork as Executor and the obvious loneliness without Bette I WILL return to the blog and bring it up to date with the build. just not now
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    Welcome to the ranks of Viking shipbuilders Clinker rules OK!
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    Nice planking job. You will repeat till it’s right. Your postings give the rest of us reassurance that perseverance wins out in the end I vote that the completed ship will need some figures. Perhaps just ‘Enery on the poop deck and a nimble matelot in the fore top. I’m not cruel, heh heh.
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    It means something like “again” or “another” happens in Russian, too. There was (actually is) a development of the Polikarpov I-15 Chaika as the I-15 bis which has retractable u/c and many more developments ( I seem to remember it lost the extravagant gull- wing, too) Ironic, I always thought as Chaika means “gull”
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    Wonderful with the backdrop - sets it off beautifully. Did you ever consider carving the fly?
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    Good revision, Steven Thanks very much for posting your thinking, preparation and the dead end you went down before revising the idea. Very instructive to the rest of us non-expert planners.
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    Thanks for the rove-making tutorial, Schrader noted and stored away for the riveting stage of my Oseberg ship i like the rove-punching handle- saves getting flat fingers! It looks as it it was repurposed from something, perhaps a lace-making bobbin? i will try making my own rivets from copper or brass wire parted by rolling under a knife with a 90 degree edge.
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    Well built, Sir! At the moment I am reminded more of a pleated wooden loincloth than a banana, but I keep an open mind😁 Very true, Dick. hold that thought!
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    My favourite for (largely) round holes in thin, delicate material is a needle file, preferably of the diamond-embedded type twiddled in the fingers sensitively. The choice of shape depends on the job but most have needle points. I might make the first hole with a round file then change to triangular or square to enlarge the hole slowly. Yes, they will make odd polygonal holes but these can be circularised (is this a word?) with the round or half round file either twiddled or used as a file (!) there should be no splitting tendency so long as the file is just rotated without the taper being pushed in.
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    That’s a wonderful model. You can be very round of it, as clearly it’s very much a work of craftsmanship. And how wonderful that Paul Koo has shared the wisdom he has learned. I know what you mean about the rain. If this pitiless “drought” Continues I will have to seek bulk supplies of gopher wood and break out my cubit-stick. (NOT taking two wasps though) on second thoughts I may not need the cubit stick as I have two forearms anyway. I know it’s confusing numerically, but I know how many arms I have.
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    Fascinating! You, Sir are a skilled craftsman with a frumious mind😀
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    Nails are great, Silverman And well done with the soldering, you have mastered the knack of it Super clean Good fits Right flux Fast heat Tiny amount of solder I like the colour you are achieving as well
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    Hi, Steven For your next project I/we suggest that you do whatever you feel challenged by; and/or whatever allume votre âme et fait vibrer votre cœur de joie I still favour the Quinquireme of Nineveh, with a full set of rowers. There is a crying need for Louie-da-Fly research into the what and how of the quinquireme and wth Ophir was😁 BTW - the Dromon is sailing more or less southward, so the canopy would be deployed to keep the rays off the lily-white skin of the Emp, so perhaps you could roll up the side curtains, or scandalize them to show the Gaffer-of-all-the-gaffers And what happened to Dick? Did he succumb to verdigris and topple off the yard? Inquiring minds want to know!
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    How right you are. His family name is “Goodheadforheights” indeed the byzantine world encompassed a wide geographical and ethnic base - most of the known western world And Larson WOULD have a duck take on the Viking helm😁

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